مَرْزَنْجُوشٌ
Root: مرزجش
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مَرْزَنْجُوشٌ
, (S, and so in the K in art. مردقش &c., in some copies of the K in the present art.,) or مَرْزَجُوشٌ, or both, the latter being of the measure فَعْلَلُولٌ, like عَضْرَفُوطٌ, [Marjoram; sweet marjoram; called by the former name in the present day;] i. q.
مَرْدَقُوشٌ: an arabicized word, from [the Persian] مَرْزَنْكُوشْ [lit. “ mouse-ear ”: but see مَرْدَقُوش]: in [genuine] Arabic, سَمْسَقٌ: beneficial for dysury, and colic, and the sting of the scorpion, and pains arising from cold, and melancholy, and inflation, or flatulence, and the disease called لَقْوَة [which distorts one side of the face], and flow of saliva from the mouth, and it is strongly diuretic, and dries up humours of the stomach and bowels.
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